Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first person to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
The first human being to orbit the Earth was Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin in his spacecraft, Vostok, in April 1961.
Geography is the science that deals with the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be SWEET POTATO "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes -
Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar from the 3rd century BCE, is often considered the first geographer. He is known for measuring the circumference of the Earth and creating one of the earliest maps of the known world.
The Earth's mantle.
Pangea refers to the worlds first landmass, the earth consisted of one ocean and one "super continent". Pangea then split up into Gondwana and Laurasia
The second country on Earth is likely to have been Mesopotamia, which is now modern-day Iraq. Mesopotamia is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, dating back to around 3500 BC.
No animal has orbited the moon other than man. Dogs and monkeys have orbited the earth.
The Soviet Union (USSR)
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John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
Nobody has orbited space but some have orbited the earth and the moon.
I believe rats were used first, then a solitary monkey.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times oFebruary 20, 1962 becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962 upon the spaceship Friendship 7.
He was 41 years old when he first orbited earth.
40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
apollo 11
No country has ever orbited the earth. Scientists and engineers in the USSR placed the first man-made satellite in earth orbit, in 1957.